See text Hecticoceras is an ammonite genus belonging to the haploceratoid family Oppeliidae, that lived during the Middle and Late Jurassic, from the Callovian.

Hecticoceras sensu lato and Prohecticoceras from the underlying Bathonian form the oppeliid subfamily, Hecticoceratinae.

Hecticoceras, including its various subgenera, have a widespread distribution and have been found in the late Middle and early Upper Jurassic of Europe, North Africa, Somalia, India, Madagascar, and possibly Japan.

(Chanasia), considered another subgenus, is characterized by a rapidly expanding, compressed, evolute shell with low broad ribbing on the outer flanks.

Ribbing in (Putealiceras) is generally straight and radial, bifurcating about mid flank and meeting at a distinct median keel on the venter.